Measuring the Lifetime of Cosmic Ray Muons Using One NaI Scintillation Detector
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Authors
Abdelhamid, Alaa
Issue Date
2021-05-07
Type
Presentation
Language
en_US
Keywords
Scholarship Sewanee 2021 , Cosmic Rays , Muons , Cosmic Ray Muons , NaI detector , Coincidence counts , Physics , Nuclear physics , Particle physics , NIMs , Gamma spectroscopy
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Abstract
Cosmic rays are energetic particles from outer space that penetrate and interact with the atmosphere, producing more particles. One of these particles that reaches the surface of the Earth is the muon. A muon is a “heavy” lepton (the same family as electrons) with a mean lifetime of 2.2 microseconds. Muons lose their energy continuously as they penetrate materials, like detectors, and some of them stop and decay inside the detector. I am measuring the mean lifetime using a sodium iodide (NaI) scintillation detector and nuclear instrumentation modules (NIMs).
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University of the South